>As the resident Chicagoan here I will check in about the Bears. They can't be THIS good -- can they? I had a feeling they would be a good team if Rex Grossman stayed healthy but whoa, I wasn't expecting this. They have been the best team in the league by a wide margin. That brutal three game road trip in November still looms but even with that scheduling anomaly it's not unreasonable to think they will win 13+ games. This is a really fun team. Like the '85 Bears, you get more excited when the defense is on the field. Hounds!

I think the jury is still out. Chicago has one of the weaker schedules in the NFL this year, but they'll get their test when the playoffs come. They may be for real! Of course, my Broncos have passed three out of four of their tests so far, and those were not gimmes.